Keeping Lake Wateree Dam safe amid Kershaw County earthquakes The dams are regularly inspected in person and by several devices located in the water. To stream WLTX 19 on your phone, you need the ...

Crews searched Lake Wateree on Sunday after a swimmer disappeared near a dam in Kershaw County and didn’t resurface.

The victim jumped from a boat and did not resurface, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

An unexpected mechanical problem at the Lake Wateree dam could cause problems for nearby residents. One out of the five turbines is down and out for at least six months, meaning less water can ...

Officers and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Dive Team are responding to a report of a missing ...

Duke, the Carolinas’ largest energy company, has been fighting environmentalists in court since 2008 over how it releases water from the Lake Wateree dam northeast of Columbia.

Lake Wateree also is a popular recreation destination. ... The change will allow an extra 75,000 gallons of water per second to flow from the dam when needed.

Duke Energy opened the floodgates at Cowans Ford Dam on Lake Norman shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 27, ... The system starts at Lake James in McDowell County and flows down to Lake Wateree in South ...

The SC lake in Lancaster, Fairfield and Kershaw counties will get concrete sites from the dam spillway project to help grow bass, catfish, crappie.

Lake Wateree is almost 14,000 acres with 181 miles of shoreline, spread across Lancaster, Kershaw and Fairfield counties. Wateree was built in 1920 for the operation of a hydroelectric station.